Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practice for his rôle by playing Presidents Grant and Lincoln in earlier cinemas, tries a little too hard to look like a Hearst cartoonist's idea of a benevolent dictator, but he sounds impressive. A little disappointing is the performance of Franchot Tone-the ablest young stage actor who migrated to Hollywood from Broadway last year-in a rôle which requires him to supply simultaneously romantic interest and the austerity proper to his station...
...Steuer, "greatest trial lawyer of our time." A brilliant, inconspicuous, hawk-faced Austrian Jew, Max Steuer has defended George Graham Rice, tireless stock swindler; Maurice Connolly, Queens sewer grafter. Harry Daugherty, boss of the Ohio Gang: Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, Philadelphia underworld chief. He is the profession's ablest exponent of the old legal saw for a weak case: "Try the judge, try your opponent, try the police but don't try your client." Once when he had Anthony J. Drexel Biddle as a witness he was afraid that the fact that Mr. Biddle was a capitalist would...
...wide organization, they made a Colonel E. M. Hadley their president. In January, Evanston got its chapter, headed by one John A. Kappelman, insurance broker. Far from unusual in thesis or technique, the Evanston Reveres made news by choosing for their target one of the Methodist Church's ablest preachers. Rev. Dr. Ernest Fremont Tittle, 47, social-minded leader in the Federal Council of Churches. Big and muscular, Dr. Tittle served in the Y. M. C. A. during the St. Mihiel offensive. In 1918 he went to Evanston's smart First Methodist Church, where his sermons-spoken...
...Dusty Foot, who fell at the third fence last year when he was one of the favorites, may be the first U. S.-owned & ridden horse to win at Aintree. Dusty Foot's jockey this week was to be his owner's friend, George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick, ablest gentleman rider in the U. S. Pete Bostwick went to England last autumn planning to ride one of his own steeplechasers in the Grand National, but his likeliest mount, Burglar, trained badly. Last week he accepted the Whitney horse...
...which the Whitneys put up the cup. Trainer for Mrs. Whitney-who "rents" her husband's horses from Langollen Stables. Inc., races them under her name-is James W. ("Big Jim") Healy. not to be confused with Tom Healey, who trains for Sonny Whitney. Sylvio Coucci is her ablest jockey. Financial adviser to Langollen Stable-and manager of most of the other racing enterprises of all the Whitneys-is Major Louie A. Beard, onetime captain of the U. S. Army polo team. Mrs. Whitney's racing string was enlarged from 41 horses in 1932, to 62 this year...